REAL-LIFE TASK 3: Oral presentation of the product in front of the company management board
Objectives:
- Giving an oral presentation of the product (prototype developed by the team) to convince the company management board to develop and manufacture it. It is a persuasive presentation based on the contents of the PSD. Students must make sure that they identify and emphasise the USP (Unique Selling Point) of their proposal and the supporting argument(s).
Skills:
- Giving a clear, well-structured presentation of a complex subject, providing persuasive arguments, evidence and possible counter-arguments
Language:
- Persuasive language
- Signposting expressions
- Phrases used in oral presentations: attention grabbers, phrases to express claims and conclusions
Genre:
Persuasive oral presentation delivered to management
Input materials:
- all the materials developed in the previous activities (activities 1-4)
Detailed description of procedures, roles, mode and interaction:
- Individually (out of class): Students incorporate peer feedback from activity 4 and rehearse the presentation once more out of class
- Each student delivers and records his/her oral presentation in a VR environment
- Student role: company employee
- VR environment: simulation of the company’s general management board (students from the same university acting as the management board could facilitate peer assessment)
- Assessment: teacher assessment of the recording, peer assessment of the recording (optional)
Expected outcomes:
- presenting a product using sustained coherent and logical arguments
Estimated timing:
- Out-of-class rehearsing: 40 minutes
- VR environment (individually): 15 minutes
- Teacher feedback on presentation: 20 minutes